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Testing a model of EFL teachers’ work engagement: the roles of teachers’ professional identity, L2 grit, and foreign language teaching enjoyment

International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 2023
Since teacher work engagement is argued to substantially affect education quality and learners’ performance, unveiling the factors affecting teacher engagement is of high significance. As an attempt to explore the antecedents of this construct in English-
J. Fathi, L. Zhang, Mohammad Hossein Arefian   +2 more
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Exploring factors affecting foreign language achievement: The role of growth mindset, self-efficacy, and L2 grit

Language Teaching Research
This study investigated the effects of growth mindset and self-efficacy on foreign language achievement (FLA) in a sample of 379 intermediate learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) while also incorporating the mediation of second language (L2 ...
J. Fathi, M. Pawlak, Sam Saeedian, Ata Ghaderi   +3 more
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Modeling the Contribution of Grit, Enjoyment, and Boredom to Predict English as a Foreign Language Students’ Willingness to Communicate in a Blended Learning Environment

Perceptual and Motor Skills
The complex relationships between emotions experienced by learners and learners’ personality traits, such as grit, that influence students’ willingness to communicate in a second language (L2 WTC) have come under increasing attention.
Elias Bensalem, Ali Derakhshan, F. Alenazi, Amy S. Thompson, Radhia Harizi   +4 more
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Modelling the predictive effect of enjoyment on willingness to communicate in a foreign language: the chain mediating role of growth mindset and grit

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development
Willingness to communicate in a foreign and second language (L2 WTC) has gradually become a recurrent theme in the SLA. With the advent of an emotional or affective turn brought by the positive psychology movement in applied linguistics, the significant ...
Xia Yu, Jin-Hui Ma
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Longitudinal exploration of interconnectedness through a cross-lagged panel design: enjoyment, anxiety, willingness to communicate, and L2 grit in english language learning

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development
This longitudinal study examines the interconnectedness of foreign language enjoyment (FLE), foreign language anxiety (FLA), and willingness to communicate (WTC) among English major students, while also exploring the predictive role of L2 grit in the ...
Ali Derakhshan, J. Fathi
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The Relative Importance of Growth Teaching Mindset, Emotions, and Self‐Efficacy in Teachers’ Grit

International Journal of Applied Linguistics
Considering the demanding and challenging nature of the teaching profession in general and foreign/second language (L2) teaching contexts in particular, there is a need to examine protective psychological resources such as grit—conceptualized as the ...
S. Hejazi, M. Sadoughi, J. A. Datu
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Informal digital learning of English and EFL learners’ willingness to communicate: investigating the mediating role of L2 grit

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development
Informal digital learning of English (IDLE) has recently become a heated debate in the realm of computer-assisted language learning. Despite the potential benefits of IDLE, the mediating role of English as a foreign language (EFL) learners’ domain ...
Mostafa Azari Noughabi, Ameneh Ghasemi
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Does engagement with feedback matter? Unveiling the impact of learner engagement and grit on EFL learners’ English writing achievements

Language Teaching Research
Given much attention associated with learner engagement in second language (L2) writing, an increasing body of studies has reported that learner engagement with feedback is a critical construct to enhance English as a foreign language (EFL) learners ...
Jia Li, Fan Yuan
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(L2) grit, emotions, and motivated learning behavior: The case of English majors in Hungary

Language Teaching Research
Although the number of studies into grit in second/foreign language (L2) learning is on the rise, available empirical evidence is still scant, particularly in relation to links between the two facets of (L2) grit (i.e.
Kata Csizér, M. Pawlak, Ágnes Albert, Mariusz Kruk   +3 more
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Much Ado About Grit: A Meta-Analytic Synthesis of the Grit Literature

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2017
M. Credé, M. Tynan, P. Harms
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